We stayed at a remote campsite by the Seminole Canyons, and the scenery was much more how I imagined Texas to be; vast, endless and damn dry. It was so green and lush in Houston -here the landscape lasts forever, with barely a break on the horizon. In the distance i could see gentle hills, still covered in the same dull grey/green of the cactie and spiky grass. The monotony is broken occasionnally by bright yellow patches of small flowers. I woke early this morni...

Unfortunately our time in san antonio was mostly spent in a huge shopping "mall"! I was quite disappointed because although giant complexes like that are great if you simply want to shop, they tend to be terrible representations of a particular place. We could have been anywhere, were it not for the mexican band playing by the river in the centre of the shops. I laughed my butt off went John and I ventured into a cowboy store and the shop salesman infor...